LINK SCHOOL log 1858 was located about 100 yards north of the Old Leb Methodist Church. It was in the south end of the field near the Westbrooks Graveyard. There is no known name for the school which was the first in the Link Community. The building was of logs…
WILSON HILL SCHOOL f 1. 1860’s-fl. 1878 was on Wilson Hill Road north of the Woodbury Road. It was at the foot of Pilot Knob. On the 1878 Beers Map it is shown as a Baptist Church and school. The school was there whenJoseph David Hall, b. 1854, was a…
VALLEY VIEW SCHOOL, 1902-1918 was northwest of Lascassas. It was on McKee Road, a dead end road running southeast of Jordan Road which in turn runs east of Valley View Road. The school lot adjoined the John Patterson farm and may have been given by the Patterson family. Although the…
CENTRAL ACADEMY 1887-1913 was on the Midland Road about 1/2 mile north of the place where Panther Creek crosses the road. It was on the west side of the present Armstrong Valley Road just after its intersection with the Barfield-Crescent Road. On June 39, 1887, for the sum of fifty…
BARFIELD SCHOOL 1913-1958 was in the 11th District. In October 27, 1913, T. B. Yeargan, Trustee, sold for $1 four acres of land for the school on the Barfield and Crescent Road at the intersection of the road leading east to the Shelbyville Road. The frame building, erected under the…
COLEMAN SCHOOL 1881 – was in Civil District 9 and School District 32 on the north side of the Murfreesboro and Jefferson dirt road, now the Central Valley Road. It was about two and one-half miles west of the Lebanon Road. On August 6, 1881, Newt A. Coleman signed a…
KNOX SCHOOL 1899-1924 was on the Knox farm, at the intersection of Lebanon Road and Osborne Lane. On July 12, 1899, J. C. Knox and wife George Anne signed a deed for one-half acre for the school. The land was “on the Stones River and Columbia Turnpike bounded by the…
JEFFERSON SCHOOL 1888-1930 was in old District 6 on the north side of Jefferson Pike and west of the village and the Florence Road intersection. The school was bound by the Jefferson-Milton Turnpike, by J. W. Lenoir, and by Daniel King. On September 15, 1888, John W. Lenoir, who was…
March/April, 2019, Froe Chips, editor Carol White It was both a comprehensive process and a labor of love that prompted C.B. Arnette to use the logs from the Arnette family home, once located at 2403 Halls Hill Pike, for the Ransom School House construction. The home was built in the…
ROCK SPRING SCHOOL 1887-1937 or 1938 succeeded the UNION SCHOOL and was built on its same site. It was known as School no. 1 in District 35. The school was a one-room frame building. H.A. Alexander was School Director in the 1896 period. School records show the early school teachers:…